[R-pkg-devel] Minimizing package size containing Shiny app > 5 Mb

[Henrik Bengtsson]

FWIW, if you share your package code (e.g. link to an online repository
such as GitHub), someone here might be able to do some prototyping on their
own and give you specific suggestions how to fix this.

My $.02

Henrik

On Wed, May 25, 2022, 10:01 Jarrett Phillips <phillipsjarrett1 using gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am preparing my package for a CRAN update.
>
> This new version contains a Shiny app of 5.4 Mb in size. The total
> package (including package functions and documentation) is 5.7 Mb in size.
>
> Thus, there is an extra 0.4 Mb limiting successful submission to CRAN.
> Actually, I haven't tried submitting, but I have a feeling it will fail.
>
> The app contains a number of DNA FASTA files (.fas format) in the www
> folder, taking up only 1.2 Mb of space. The rest of the content in this
> folder is images.
>
> I don't think I can compress the files (as per the Writing R Extensions
> text) since they are needed by the app when a user selects a particular
> file from a drop-doen menu.
>
> I could ask for an exemption, but I've read from Hadley Wickham's R
> Packages book that this hasn't been too successful in recent years.
>
> Are there any other workarounds?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jarrett
>
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